Alphabetical Africa is a constrained writing experiment by Walter Abish.

Writing in Esquire, Harold Bloom put it on a list of 20th century novels that will endure.

; each subsequent chapter adds the next letter in the alphabet to the set of allowed word beginnings.

[2] In the second half of the book, through chapter 52, letters are removed in the reverse order that they were added.

[citation needed] One point of dispute is whether the failures to meet the constraint are intentional, and therefore potentially meaningful, or are simply editing mistakes.